Raefarty has made it to the party!

I don’t know if you remember my post from a few weeks back about my sister wanting to name my niece Raefarty (pronounced Rafferty and not at all like Ray Farty). My niece has been born! Two weeks earlier than expected, but she is healthy and home now. When my sister first held her, she said, “She’s so adorable,” and got an idea: She wanted to change from Theodora to Theodorable. Thankfully my BIL put his foot down.

He did give her carte blanche on the middle name. When it was supposed to be Rafferty, they went with Rose to counterbalance Rafferty being different. Now that Theodora was the “normal” name, and because my sister just cannot not be extra, she chose Jaczynvil.

Theodora Jaczynvil. A Raefarty Rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

We are not from Florida. BIL is not from Florida. I don’t think my sister’s ever been to Florida, much less to Jacksonville. I asked her how she came up with it and she said she always liked geographical names, which is news to me because I specifically remember a conversation about names months ago and she said she hated when parents name their kids place names like Camden or Brooklyn because “they’re trying way too hard.” But you do you, Raefarty’s mom.

Also, our city has a pretty sizeable Polish-American population and people will certainly try to pronounce it like it’s a Polish last name, but at least the craziness is confined to the middle name. And there’s no gas or slurs involved.